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22 :: a wrap

December 22, 2011

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Pressies are ALL wrapped - I think we're just about ready for Christmas!

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2014 - a year of quilts!

At the start of 2014 I would never have believed I would make quite so many quilts as I did - after all, before last year I had only ever finished one! I won't say too much about them here - instead I'll pop in links to where I've blogged about them before - but I thought it would be nice to see them all in one place. So, here goes: Mum's Nana quilt Bed sized, finished in April, quilted by Raylee at Sunflower Quilting , blogged Finding Formation: Synchronized Swimming Approx 60" square, made in July to test Nightingale Quilts' pattern ' Finding Formation ', quilted by me, hung in the Canberra Quilters' Exhibition, blogged Happy Herringbone Approx 60"x64", made in August from Maureen Cracknell's free QAYG herringbone tutorial and several Kate Spain fabric ranges, quilted by me, hung in the Canberra Quilters' exhibition, blogged Elephants' Picnic Approx 60" square,made in September - in about ...

Hyphen cardi

To me, March means knitting. I'm not entirely sure why - it isn't really cold enough for woollens, but maybe it's wishful thinking, longing for an end to the hot summer weather (this year summer feels like it is stretching waaaaaaay out!) A few people I know are having winter babies this year, so I wanted to knit up some tiny bits for them (knitting for a four year old takes so long now haha). I came across the Hyphen cardigan by Frogginette and fell in love with the textured yoke. I've knitted it up in the smallest size (3 months) on 5mm needles and in Lincrafts own brand of baby wool (merino 8ply), which is deliciously squishy and I want to use again and again. This has come up a bit bigger than I expected - probably more suited to a 6 month old - but I just love it so much. It just needs buttons now =) I'm pretty keen to try this in a bigger size for Miss A (now 4 years old).... Maybe even a matching one for me? Xo Bron

The aliens, Ted!

UFO sightings chez Kuka? Well, almost! MY creative space this week (as so often it is) was the kitchen, which was the scene of a little macaron party! I made a couple of batches to take to a dinner which ended up being cancelled. But... there were no complaints from my colleagues when I took a boxful into work during the week =) These little guys, from top to bottom in the picture down there, are: - chocolate with orange cardamom buttercream - plain with chocolate buttercream - plain with orange cardamom buttercream - mint with chocmint buttercream I've had the same chocolate recipe work beautifully before, but these ones didn't quite work out right - no feet and cracked on the top. But, geez, they are so chocolately and TASTY! For the others I used the 'simple' recipe from Syrup and Tang . The recipe is given more as a formula, which I really like - not just on account of the science-nerdiness - you weigh the eggwhites and adjust the other ingredients accordingly. And...

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